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Mongolia’s population stands at 3.45 million at the end of 2022

According to B.Batmunkh, Chairman of the National Statistics Office, Mongolia’s population growth has been slowing down since 2020.

The population of the country had grown by an average annual rate of 2.2 percent from 2010 to 2020. However, the average annual

Creating job opportunities for people in need

In Mongolia, the development of mineral resources in the early 2010s led to rapid economic growth, but such growth has remained sluggish ever since. While the country’s poverty rate temporarily decreased from 38.8 percent in 2010 to 21.6 percent in

“Blue Pearl” ice festival to be held in March

Annual “Blue Pearl” ice festival will be held in Mongolia’s northern province of Khuvsgul on 1-5 March. The festival has been cancelled for last two years  due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The two-day tourism event is held annually since 2000

A new dataset for mongolian online handwritten recognition

A new traditional Mongolian word-level online handwriting dataset, MOLHW is introduced. The dataset consists of handwritten Mongolian words, including 164,631 samples written by 200 writers and covering 40,605 Mongolian common words. These words were selected from a large Mongolian corpus.

Mongolia raises the minimum wage

Mongolia raised its the minimum wage to MNT 550 thousand (about USD 145) per month.  Thus, the minimum wage increased by MNT 130,000 or 31 percent from MNT 420 thousand. The decision came effect from January 1, 2023.

There are 1.1

70 percent of Mongolia’s rangeland degraded

The Mongolian rangelands have been identified as among the most sensitive to climate change and variability, and degradation has been alarming. Over 70 percent of the rangelands have changed from their natural state .

In the 2014 survey, over half of

Mongolia’s coal export exceeds 30 million

Mongolia has boosted coal exports to over 30 million tonnes this year. A total of 30,295,500 tonnes of coal have been exported since the beginning of 2022, which is 90% more than last year.

Frequent lockdowns along the China-Mongolia border due to

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